So often we hear about the importance of collaboration, working together in a team to come up with new ideas.
You can’t graduate from a top business school today without having participated in dozens of group presentations and team discussions.
But does this approach work when trying to come up with new ideas? I actually don’t think so.
ERP systems not only collect information about transactions, they also automate processes. The latter includes managing the handoffs between roles and enabling electronic document creation and management associated with that. Indeed, it was the promise of improving process management and process execution that spurred companies to adopt ERP in the 1990s.
Imagine the world in 2030, more resource-constrained than ever—but then suddenly benefitting from a breakthrough approach to harnessing wind energy. What if the person capable of hatching that innovation is, today, a middle-school girl in a village in Ecuador? Will it happen? Or think closer to home: If the cure for cystic fibrosis is just waiting in the mind of a girl in your community, will it ever see the light of day?
Why is it that so many people can’t get things done? (The key is…the same old organization and prioritization)
Across the board, we’re inundated with information – emails, vmails, RSS feeds we have to get to, Facebook posts we have to “like,” LinkedIn requests we have to respond to.
Not to mention meetings, voice conferences and everything else. So, who has the time to just plain work?
Sometimes, what you say can and will work against you. Sure, actions speak louder than words, but where your employees are concerned, words can still be motivation and morale killers—especially when you use the wrong words.
There is a gap in the human capital management practices of the highest and lowest performing companies that only promises to grow over time. This is one of the key findings of “The Best Get Better: Critical Human Capital Issues of 2012,” a study conducted by Institute for Corporate Productivity (I4CP).